Scientists at the University of Tokyo carried out a study, which found that heart cells respond differently to high blood pressure. Some of the heart cells, the researchers found, adapting to work in particularly adverse conditions, in particular at elevated pressure.
Scientists said that heart cells to cope with high pressure is not the same: partly fail and partly adapted. Such serious differences between cardiomyocytes scientists have discovered for the first time.
According to scientists, the cells of the heart, which “broke” because of the increased pressure, become “stretched and weak as a worn elastic band”. The researchers explained that these heart cells loses the ability to thoroughly compressed, which adversely affects blood flow. With regard to cardiomyocytes, which can be adapted to high blood pressure, these heart cells, compared with the previous thicker.
In trying to understand what does not give all the heart cells to adapt to elevated pressure, the researchers came to the conclusion that this weakness obyasnyayetsya p53 gene, which shows increased activity in the damaged cardiomyocytes. Now Japanese researchers are working on technology that will allow you to “reprogram” the cells of the heart, making them adaptive towards high blood pressure.
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